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Quite honestly, this is a BIG intrusion into privacy. Any system that can be abused, will be abused, now we have the government tracking the majority of the trucks on the road under the guise of compliance of HOS regulations. Also of note is that though GPS technology has come a long way in the last 20 years, it still has issues. Though it is rare, the government does shutdown the satellites from time to time, or limit them, for purposes of maintenance, realignment, and military exercises, and they usually do it with little to know warning. Also solar flare activity can and does interfere, as well as natural magnetic field activity, and man made interference. You don't always notice these anomalies while driving down the road simply because consumer GPS devices such as navigation systems, use special subroutines to guesstimate actual location when a signal is not as it should be, but that requires the GPS to be on and tracking for a time period to have the proper data to do that. If you just processed raw GPS signals and had it represented on a map, it would be bouncing all over the place within a 1 mile radius of where you are really sitting, and if any of the above mentioned anomalies are going on, that bounce can go as far as a couple hundred miles! I know this because I have done programming with GPS systems before, and I had to learn how to code the subroutines that 'stabilize' the signal to give more accurate result. So the real problem here, is if the location is only being recorded every 'x' amount of minutes, the GPS is not 'stabilized' and can give very erratic results. Even if it was say every 15 minutes, it will still usually be accurate to within about 20 feet, BUT you will get those anomalies from time to time that will show you being 200 miles away from where you are, which I would venture to say could happen probably every 100 'pings' or so, but that could vary widely based on where you are, solar flare conditions, etc. Honestly I do not forsee too many issues with accuracy, but they will occur. |
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True but it sure could screw up the double log book/phantom team driver types that were several hundred miles away from where they said they took a break. |
Just wait until they get the EOBR's. If successful we will all need to buy these recorders so we can be tracked. Big brother at work.
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Our safety dept reminds of this every now and then.
Our dispatch/planning dept also has a electronic map that looks sort of like air traffic control, It shows where you are, ...if you are running on time...and will trigger a 14 clock if you move the truck more than 1500 feet. Oddly enough...if it comes down to a service failure...or the 14 clock... they have been known to 'overlook' the clock. Go figure |
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Its a pisser...:(
I used to show up here at the board ranting about forcing these companies to play straight pool and run their drivers legal so we would not be framed to take the fall for them... All my wishes have backfired...! This legal pressure has simply taken the definition of 'Forced Dispatch' to a new level. Where I work for example you have basically relinquished your log book to the planners... You run when they say you run...7 times out of 10 its on little sleep and running all night and into the morning. ...be careful what one wishes for they told me when i was little |
The secret to trucking is being able to sleep in the day like one of those creatures
you see on Wild Kingdom :) |
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